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Theater is a collaborative art form that uses live performers to present experiences before a live audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art and stagecraft are used to enhance the experience. Types of theatrical plays include drama, musical theater, comedy, tragedy, and improvisation.

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Theater

Theater is a collaborative art form that uses live performers to present experiences before a live audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art and stagecraft are used to enhance the experience. Types of theatrical plays include drama, musical theater, comedy, tragedy, and improvisation.

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Theater

It is a collaborative form
of fine artthat uses live
performers to present the
experience of a real or
imagined event before a
live audience in a specific
place, often a stage.

The performers may


communicate this
experience to the audience
through combinations of
gesture, speech, song,
music, and dance. Elements
of art and stagecraft are
used to enhance the
physicality, presence and
immediacy of the
experience.

The specific place of the


performance is also
named by the word
"theatre" as derived from
the Ancient Greek
(thatron, "a place for
viewing"), itself from
(theomai, "to
see", "to watch", "to

Types of Theatrical
Play

1. Drama- is the specific


modeof fiction
represented
In performance. The term
comes from a Greek word
meaning Action, which is
derived from the verb "to
do" or "to act".

2. Musical Theater- musicand


theatre have had a close
relation-ship since ancient timesAthenian tragedy, for example,
was a form of dance- dramathat
employed a choruswhose parts
were sung (to the
accompaniment of an Aulos- an
instrument comparable to the
modernclari-net), as were some
of the actors' responses and
their 'solo songs' (monodies).

3. Comedy- Theatre productions


that use humoras a vehicle to
tell a story qualify as comedies.
This may include a modern
farcesuch as Boeing Boeingor a
classical play such as As you like
it. Theatre expressing bleak,
controversial or taboo subject
matter in a deliberately
humorous way is referred to as
black comedy. Black Comedy can
have several genres like
slapstick humor, dark and

4. Tragedy- is a form of
drama based on human
sufferingsthat invokes
an accompanying
catharsis
or pleasure in
audiences.

5. Improvisation- often called


improvorimpro, is a form of
theater where most or all of
what is performed is created
at the moment it is performed.
In its purest form, the
dialogue, action, story, and
characters are created
collaboratively by the players
as the improvisation unfolds in
present time, without use of
an already prepared, written

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